Citizen Action

What do you get when you mix frustration, creative energy, an extra cup of coffee and a threat to our province’s protected areas? In my case, a team of artists defending Alberta parks with their [...]

If you’d told me at the start of 2020 that within six months I’d be organizing a rally for universal basic income, I probably would have stared at you blankly. Or spit out my morning [...]

How does a corporate lawyer working in Alberta’s energy sector get tagged as a communist by those who believe the Conservatives in all their true-blue iterations are the natural ruling party in [...]

As a preteen I learned what it meant to be powerless. I lived in a country where women are oppressed, and as a young girl I found that suffocating. My mother wasn’t allowed to drive. My aunt had [...]

I slip into my chest waders again, the ones with the carbide tips for traction. The water of Hidden Creek is cold in late September, a medium you do not want to fall into. But to bull trout the [...]

On Friday, July 24, at 4:00 a.m., 25 people deployed onto the grassy space across the street from Edmonton’s downtown baseball stadium. We erected 10 tents and set into motion a plan to welcome [...]

It was was minus 20. I had my winter gear on and hand-warmers in my mitts. A small group of us stood shivering by the side of the road holding our signs. Mine read “Unite Behind the Science,” but [...]

My name is Sadie Vipond, I am 14 years old, and I am part of a lawsuit against the federal government. All 15 of the youth involved in La Rose et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen are being affected [...]

My favourite photo of the Edmonton-Riverview NDP volunteers shows a group of them around my dining room table in 2019 intently studying our constituency’s new poll map. It’s clear these people [...]

During the morning rush hour of October 7, 2019, 10 members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion Edmonton locked arms and blockaded Walterdale Bridge, shutting down traffic for 80 [...]